Cherry Hills in Lame Deer

My friends from Cherry Hills Community Church are visiting Lame Deer this week.They will be cooking dinners, prayer walking, and visiting the jail. My friend Nate Brandli has agreed to send me updates throughout the week. CHCC was the first group I went to Lame Deer with in 2008. They are led by Paul & Suz Meyers, a great couple. Please keep them in your prayers. Here is their first update! Feel free to leave your comments.

We got to Colstip midday on Saturday.  We met Dean and Keli here and headed to Forsythe for lunch before we headed to Miles City to go shopping for food for the week.  At lunch we learned that the school had originally set up a year before Dean, Keli and girls arrived in Lame Deer.  Dean's understanding is that it was not established with Godly intentions, but as a way for someone to educate their child without use of the local schools.  But Keli did see it as a way to continue educating her daughters and others who have grown up to be apart of their church.  So the closing of the school seems to be bittersweet.  Now they are transitioning into a new phase of life; with children and mother out of the home and the school no longer to be.  Keli feels she can now be a full-time pastors wife, though she also enjoys here expanding pizza business. 
Today we set up for Monday's special dinner event to congregants who were invited in advance.  Keli has a purple toe, so her and Dean went to Billings to go to the emergency room and get some shopping done.  One of the dogs has a large growth on its leg, a school classroom has mold growing on it, some perhaps minor relational struggles between people have occurred along with complaints about living conditions and past events have been said.  
The upside is that we had Youth Works visitors Sunday along with a gentlemen who travels the county ministering in nursing homes who lead worship this morning.  Things also look great in the gym for the dinner and they should be having a great meal and hopefully a good time as well.